'The book offers a bridge into the critical understanding of modern Chinese art through its encounter with the world beyond China's borders. David Clarke demonstrates Chinese art's interconnections with Western cultures while exploring its inherited cultural traditions and internal historical change.

The first section deals with the cross-cultural trajectories of individual Chinese artists who traveled from China to the West and then returned. The focus then shifts from the movement of individual artists between cultures to the process by which specific genres of Western art have been interpreted by Chinese artists. The final section illuminates the encounter of cultures via visual representations of Macau and Hong Kong.'  - from the inside flap

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Onsite

Location code
REF.CLD (Hong Kong Room)
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

259

ISBN / ISSN

9789888083060

No of copies

2

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Trajectories: Chinese artists and the West

Chapter 1: Chitqua: A Chinese artist in eighteenth-century London

Chapter 2: Cross-cultural dialogue and artistic innovation: Teng Baiye and Mark Tobey

Part II Imported genres

Chapter 3: Iconicity and indexicality: The body in Chinese art

Chapter 4: Abstraction and modern Chinese art

Part III Returning home: Cities between China and the world

Chapter 5: Illuminating facades: Looking at postcolonial Macau

Chapter 6: The haunted city: Hong Kong and its urban others in the postcolonial era

Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World
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Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World